Pre-Production

Task 3 - design

Film treatment 

Title - "Bassoon reed making 101" - 12 photos per second approx.

Based on the structure of the music - Lambada (recorded and arranged by myself) 

Style of film - Title sequence to a documentary on the basics of making bassoon reeds. The style of the title sequence is intended to be humorous and fun for the viewer to have a preconception that bassoon reed making is easy and very enjoyable when really it is very fiddly, frustrating and tedious. Every bassoonist wishes the reed would just be made by themselves and this suggests humour because it is far from the truth. 

Intro - The bassoon with reed on it is lying on the ground - the camera starts with a shot from of the bassoon from the bottom. Zooms up from the bottom of the bassoon with handheld shots. The reed comes off bassoon onto ground and crawls along the floor and up the table leg and into the centre of the table. A piece of gouged, shaped and profiled cane comes on and has a question mark and arrow from reed to cane. (*Cane*  -->  *Reed*    ?)

Link - cut to post-its, post-its doing inverted colours in sync with the beat.

Theme 1- Title - "bassoon reed making 101" with note post-its notes- scrolling away.

How- Scrolling in from the right - departs downwards, up or left

(Shots aligned to fit in with the music.)

Cut back to cane reed, arrow and question mark - question mark, arrow and reed leave (fly off) while the cane stays on screen, camera zooms in and cane starts being cut/scored on the "bark".

Knife comes on, comes up under reed then turns with the blade facing upwards. Screen goes black and it cuts the cane (in sync with a hit in the music). 

Cane closes up, 3 wires come on and wrap/tie themselves around the cane. Mandrel comes on and inserts itself into the reed. The reed them automatically forms by itself without showing the middle steps (for effect).

Theme 2 - A bottle of clear nail varnish then comes on and paints the "bark" section of the reed.

The reed the jumps onto a drying rack and a sun then moon fly past to signify a night going by (for it to dry and form properly).

Theme 1a- A reel of thread then comes on and thread starts piling itself onto the reed. When a sufficient amount of thread has covered the reed a pair of scissors come on. The scissors cut the thread and as it does the thread which was on the reed flies off to reveal the reed to have magically been bound. The scissors and thread then leave the shot.

Theme 2a - A tube of "Duco Cement" then comes on and drives over the reed, after it has gone over it the reed now magically has Duco Cement around the binding. The reed then jumps back on to the drying rack and a sun and moon pass to signify a night going past (for the Duco Cement to dry).

Outro - The reed then hops off the drying rack and on the guillotine. The guillotine cuts the tip and the reed does a back flip off the guillotine. 

The shot then zooms in on the reed and bits of sliced post-its appear as if rays of the sun to show the reed is complete. "By Todd Gibson-Cornish" then appears in the bottom left of the shot.

Task 4 - Crew and Talent

Todd Gibson-Cornish - Director, editor, arranger, performer, everything.

Bassoon reed - actor.

Post-its - actor.

Task 5 - Production Schedule 

Just me - photos all to be done in holidays and beginning of term 3, at home, in my room, with my camera, and my reed. Aim for 100-200 photos a day

I will plan how to do the post-it notes title in my head as it's too difficult to plan on paper.

I will arrange the music and record it at the start of the holidays.

Task 6 - Art department

Bassoon cane (gouged shaped and profiled) - from America 

Reed equipment - from America, Germany, England

Bassoon - Germany 

Post-it notes - Stationary warehouse

Reeds - made them myself with equipment.

Task 7 - Locations and permissions

One location - my house, my room, i give myself permission.